Jordan Peterson Beast Mode

Here he says that Marxism was abandoned in the 1970's by his "liberal" bogeymen. Of course it's no longer true that the working class is getting rich. In fact by comparison with the upper class, the middle class has been losing ground ever since the 70's. So your point is not rational.

 

There have been no significant Marxists in the United States except perhaps in the 1930's.

 

Oh, my goodness!

"Why is Marxism so attractive?"

Now you are posting videos that are strawmen!

Is there no end to your madness!

 

I never met more than three real Marxists in my whole life, and two were very young. Yet I was surprised to discover that in college, I majored in Cultural Marxism without realizing it.

I was an English major in college, and I once wrote a paper titled, "A Marxist Interpretation of, My Kinsman Major Molineux" (a Nathanial Hawthorne short story). It was only for a class in literary interpretation. The assignment was to choose from one of five interpretive methods: deconstruction, feminist, Marxist, reader response theory, or psychoanaytic. I had to learn these five methods in this class, though I was never required to use any of these methods for writing papers in any other English classes.

As I proceeded in my studies, I often grabbed ideas from these theories I had learned, in a kind of eclectic way. I did my own independent reading to learn more about most of the theories. I did more than I had to do, because I was interested in the theories themselves. Not every undergraduate student had to do this. At the post-graduate level students are required to become more heavily invested in theories. At the undergraduate level students could still just enjoy the literature and interpret it freely in most classes.

Some classes were joint English/women's studies classes. In these, I learned even more postmodernist academic feminist theory, and I and other students were required to resort to these theories to interpret some plays and fiction. But no students were required to take these classes. These were electives.

Later after graduation, work, marriage, motherhood and the passage of years I started to see people repeatedly talking about something they called "Cultural Marxism". When I looked it up, I saw it came from the Frankfurt School. I immediately recognized it. It was all familiar. I realized I was deeply steeped in the Frankfurt School, although I had never been taught about its existence. I'm not even sure any of my professors were aware of its existence.

But one thing I immediately realized about the Frankfurt School is that it has not only influenced academia. It has also influenced psychology, mass media, advertising and marketing.

Now what do you think influences people more? The ads they watch, or my paper about "A Marxist Interpretation of My Kinsman Major Molineux".

Furthermore, all political candidates rely on work that has a pedigree going back to the Frankfurt School when they do focus groups, targeted campaign ads, jingos, "talking points", etc.

So actually both political parties, and all corporations, have been influenced by the Frankfurt School or work derived from the Frankfurt School.

I may have written a few bad papers, but I doubt very much if English professors and English majors ruined the world. LOL

 

I agree with you about these points.